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Special Collections and University Archives (SPARC) has mounted 21 digital collections, featuring more than 60,000 items in digital form. These online resources represent
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Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions contains
over 1,800 images of Native Americans and related Catholic churches, schools, clergy, and religious from across the United States. Most were submitted to The Indian
Sentinel as illustrations. A few images from the Sacred Heart Franciscan Records and the Walter Bernard Hunt Collection are also included.

Holy
Rosary MissionRed Cloud Indian School offers access to photographic images of Oglala, Brulé, and other Indians, Jesuits, Sisters of St. Francis
of Penance and Christian Charity and other Catholic personnel, primarily at Holy Rosary Mission and the Red Cloud Indian School and the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian
reservations in South Dakota.

The Indian Sentinel,
1902-1962 was a fundraising magazine published by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. The magazine features articles by clergy, religious
and Native Americans about Native life in the United States and related Catholic churches and schools.

St. Francis Mission The St.
Francis Mission Digital Image Collection features images of Brulé and Oglala Indians, Jesuits, and Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian
Charity, mostly at St. Francis Mission School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Marquette University History Online provides a federated search
portal for accessing the university-related collections listed below, as well as thousands of scans made in response to patron requests.

Building a Campus contains over 600 images and printed
materials documenting the built environment through the course of Marquette University's history. The initial November 2010 release focuses on 14
buildings; regular additions featuring other buildings will be made over time.

Service at Marquette includes 150
images from 1969 through 2006 demonstrating Marquettes ongoing commitment to community service activities.

Edwin A. Shanke AP Reporter in Germany, 1937-1942, provides access to photographs, correspondence, and wire copy from MU alumnus Edwin Shanke during the period he worked in Germany as an Associated Press correspondent.

African American Catholics in the United States contains over 200
images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations
since 1900.

The Gesu Collection offers records from the Gesu Parish and School Collection that
will be of interest to genealogists. Many of the records come from St. Gall Parish which consolidated with Holy Name Parish to form Gesu.